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    Parents walk their children to the entrance of Woodstock Elementary School in Cherokee County on the first day of school on August 3, 2020. A second-grade class at Sixes Elementary School in Cherokee will have to quarantine for two weeks after a student tested positive for COVID-19. STEVE SCHAEFER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
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    The Cobb County School District has released a phased approach to restart in-person classes during the 2020-21 school year.
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    A DeKalb County K-9 was shot and killed by a deputy while searching for a rape suspect Tuesday afternoon in southwest Atlanta, authorities said.
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    The 39-year-old was struck by a tractor-trailer after her car broke down on the side of I-75 in Monroe County.
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    Residents of Juliette lobbied lawmakers to take action on coal ash earlier this year. Now they have filed a lawsuit against Georgia Power.
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    The Atlanta school board on Monday changed the dress code policy so that the district can require that students wear masks or face coverings. Curtis Compton/ AJC FILE PHOTO
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    In this frame from video people walk down the street after an explosion in Beirut, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020. A massive explosion shook Lebanon's capital wounding a number people and causing widespread damage. (AP Photo)
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    The police chief in Aurora, Colorado, has apologized to a Black family after a Sunday incident in which officers pulled up behind their parked SUV and with guns drawn ordered a woman and four girls to lay face down after mistakenly matching vehicle’s license plate to a stolen motorcycle. Video of the armed officers surrounding the family on the ground in the parking lot has since gone viral on social media and has been viewed more than 1.4 million times on Twitter as of early Tuesday, according to The Washington Post.
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    Parents walk their children to the entrance of Woodstock Elementary School in Cherokee County on the first day of school on August 3, 2020. A second-grade class at Sixes Elementary School in Cherokee will have to quarantine for two weeks after a student tested positive for COVID-19. STEVE SCHAEFER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
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    In a single day in mid-July, the state’s public report on the Dunwoody Health and Rehabilitation Center shot up from zero cases among residents, to 63 residents with confirmed cases of COVID-19 and six deaths. And the numbers kept climbing. STEVE SCHAEFER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
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    As of late July the region anchored by Tift Regional Medical Center and the region anchored by Athens hospitals have no more critical care beds left as the coronavirus pandemic spreads again within Georgia. (PHOTO by HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM)
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    Cuthbert is the county seat for Randolph County, which has been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Randolph had the highest county infection rate in Georgia in April. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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    Prosecutor John B. Johnson III heads back to his area during the hearing for Dennis Perry in Brunswick on July 13, 2020. An Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation has found that Johnson has withheld evidence in a series of cases that he was legally required to share with the defense, evidence that defendants could have used to win an acquittal. (Ryon Horne/RHORNE@AJC.COM)
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    Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown will be the keynote speaker at this year's AJC Decatur Book Festival, which is being held online. Organizers decided against holding a physical festival due to the pandemic. Courtesy of Brian Cornelius
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